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Jackson City planning director outlines reorganization to streamline permitting and homelessness response
Summary
Planning Director Angela Brown presented a departmental reorganization that consolidates permitting and code functions, creates a business navigator for major projects, and establishes a flexible special-projects team to address homelessness and other priority issues.
Angela Brown, the city's Planning Development Director, told the Jackson City Planning Committee on March 4 that she is restructuring the department to reduce silos and speed services. She said the plan moves to a single deputy development director, consolidates code and compliance functions, creates a business navigator to fast-track major projects and establishes a special-projects team to focus on transient but urgent issues such as homelessness.
Brown described the change as intended to create "interdepartmental connectivity" and an "open and…
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